JEFFERYS, Thomas, publisher (ca 1719-1771). -- Braddock MEAD ("John Green"). Remarks, in Support of the New Chart of North and South America; in Six Sheets . London: Printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1753.
JEFFERYS, Thomas, publisher (ca 1719-1771). -- Braddock MEAD ("John Green"). Remarks, in Support of the New Chart of North and South America; in Six Sheets . London: Printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1753. 4 o (237 x 191 mm). Six-sheet engraved map, detailed below. (Some pale spotting.) Later binding of contemporary blue paper wrappers, red sprinkled edges, laid in a sunken mount with the six-sheet chart, green buckram folding case. Provenance : Pierre S. duPont III (his sale Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 166). [ Map :] A Chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest Coasts of Europe . [London:] Published according to Act of Parliament by T. Jefferys, Feb. 19. 1753. 6 sheets (542 x 715 mm), each sheet with vertical central fold, sheets II and VI slightly larger and with an horizontal fold, the sheets apparently extracted from an atlas and numbered in contemporary ink 35 through 40, wide margins. Each sheet with its own title and engraved border, so designed for separate sale. Hand-colored in outline, color key and other directions on printed slip pasted to Sheet VI. [ Map sheets comprising: ] Sheet I: Chart containing part of the Icy Sea with the adjacent Coast of Asia and America . Plate: 480 x 540 mm. Sheet II: Chart comprising Greenland with the Countries and Islands about Baffin's and Hudson's Bays . Plate: 563 x 625 mm. Sheet III: Chart containing the Coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian Discoveries to the North; with the Peninsula of Kamchatka, in Asia, opposite thereto; and Islands, dispersed over the Pacific Ocean, to the North of the Line . Plate: 459 x 538 mm. (Some pale browning.) Sheet IV: Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish Settlements in North America, and the West Indies . Plate: 482 x 631 mm. (Faintly browned, tiny repair to 2-in. split in lower platemark.) Sheet V: Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispersed thro' the same . Plate: 461 x 355 mm. Sheet VI: Chart of South America, comprehending the West Indies, with the Adjacent Islands, in the Southern Ocean, and South Sea . Plate: 553 x 622 mm. (Some slight spotting, two small repaired tears in upper margin just crossing platemark). RARE. "The Remarks and the Chart give the most authoritative account for their time of the early discoveries on the Northwest Coast" (Streeter sale VI:3453). Remarks was most likely issued separately from the six-sheet chart to accommodate those owners who wished to keep the chart in a folio composite atlas. A copy in a contemporary binding, with the "silk-backed folding charts mounted on guards [with defects]" was sold at Christie's London, 20 February 1980, lot 88. The duPont-Streeter set comprises the original edition of the chart, of which there are later issues (see Streeter set with a 1753 issue). There is no set in the Hill Collection. The author and the cartographer Braddock Mead was an Irishman "of warm passions fond of ye Women & Intrigue" (T. Jefferys. Letter to the Earl of Morton, 17 January 1767). He fled to London in 1728 with an accomplice Daniel Kimberly and a 12 year-old heiress named Bridget Reading to whom he was clandestinely married in order to claim her inheritance. Mead had already deserted two former wives. Kimberly was caught and hanged for his offense; Mead went into hiding, changing his name first to Rogers then to Green He worked successively for Chambers, Cave, Astley and Jefferys before committing suicide in 1757. "[Mead] had a number of marked characteristics as a cartographer. One was his ability to collect, to analyze the value of, and to use a wide variety of sources; these he acknowledged scrupulously on the maps he designed and even more fully in accompanying remarks. Another outstanding characteristic was his intelligent compilation and careful evaluation of reports on latitudes and longitudes used in the construction of his maps, whi
JEFFERYS, Thomas, publisher (ca 1719-1771). -- Braddock MEAD ("John Green"). Remarks, in Support of the New Chart of North and South America; in Six Sheets . London: Printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1753.
JEFFERYS, Thomas, publisher (ca 1719-1771). -- Braddock MEAD ("John Green"). Remarks, in Support of the New Chart of North and South America; in Six Sheets . London: Printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1753. 4 o (237 x 191 mm). Six-sheet engraved map, detailed below. (Some pale spotting.) Later binding of contemporary blue paper wrappers, red sprinkled edges, laid in a sunken mount with the six-sheet chart, green buckram folding case. Provenance : Pierre S. duPont III (his sale Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 166). [ Map :] A Chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest Coasts of Europe . [London:] Published according to Act of Parliament by T. Jefferys, Feb. 19. 1753. 6 sheets (542 x 715 mm), each sheet with vertical central fold, sheets II and VI slightly larger and with an horizontal fold, the sheets apparently extracted from an atlas and numbered in contemporary ink 35 through 40, wide margins. Each sheet with its own title and engraved border, so designed for separate sale. Hand-colored in outline, color key and other directions on printed slip pasted to Sheet VI. [ Map sheets comprising: ] Sheet I: Chart containing part of the Icy Sea with the adjacent Coast of Asia and America . Plate: 480 x 540 mm. Sheet II: Chart comprising Greenland with the Countries and Islands about Baffin's and Hudson's Bays . Plate: 563 x 625 mm. Sheet III: Chart containing the Coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian Discoveries to the North; with the Peninsula of Kamchatka, in Asia, opposite thereto; and Islands, dispersed over the Pacific Ocean, to the North of the Line . Plate: 459 x 538 mm. (Some pale browning.) Sheet IV: Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish Settlements in North America, and the West Indies . Plate: 482 x 631 mm. (Faintly browned, tiny repair to 2-in. split in lower platemark.) Sheet V: Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispersed thro' the same . Plate: 461 x 355 mm. Sheet VI: Chart of South America, comprehending the West Indies, with the Adjacent Islands, in the Southern Ocean, and South Sea . Plate: 553 x 622 mm. (Some slight spotting, two small repaired tears in upper margin just crossing platemark). RARE. "The Remarks and the Chart give the most authoritative account for their time of the early discoveries on the Northwest Coast" (Streeter sale VI:3453). Remarks was most likely issued separately from the six-sheet chart to accommodate those owners who wished to keep the chart in a folio composite atlas. A copy in a contemporary binding, with the "silk-backed folding charts mounted on guards [with defects]" was sold at Christie's London, 20 February 1980, lot 88. The duPont-Streeter set comprises the original edition of the chart, of which there are later issues (see Streeter set with a 1753 issue). There is no set in the Hill Collection. The author and the cartographer Braddock Mead was an Irishman "of warm passions fond of ye Women & Intrigue" (T. Jefferys. Letter to the Earl of Morton, 17 January 1767). He fled to London in 1728 with an accomplice Daniel Kimberly and a 12 year-old heiress named Bridget Reading to whom he was clandestinely married in order to claim her inheritance. Mead had already deserted two former wives. Kimberly was caught and hanged for his offense; Mead went into hiding, changing his name first to Rogers then to Green He worked successively for Chambers, Cave, Astley and Jefferys before committing suicide in 1757. "[Mead] had a number of marked characteristics as a cartographer. One was his ability to collect, to analyze the value of, and to use a wide variety of sources; these he acknowledged scrupulously on the maps he designed and even more fully in accompanying remarks. Another outstanding characteristic was his intelligent compilation and careful evaluation of reports on latitudes and longitudes used in the construction of his maps, whi
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